What is "nag"

Usage examples of "nag".

The nagging weight of fear that had burdened my heart for the last weeks had eased.

The system would have responded to Ronygos directly, but the Deified liked to nag the living for having introduced unbreakable routines that prevented them from issuing edicts and making decisions without the consent of the living.

Despite her worry and nagging uncertainty, she believed that a connection between her and Dinah did exist.

The one worry still nagging away was whether Dieter Gluck knew Sturffie.

And he was also wearily conscious of the endless petty inconveniences that would nag him if Gribble balked at every doorway.

We know this for a fact because, in December 1945, some Arab peasants were digging for fertilizer in the Jabal al-Tarif mountains of Upper Egypt, close to the town of Nag Hammadi, and they discovered an earthenware jar almost six feet high.

But from every perspective other than the strictly jurisprudential one, the case remains troubling and unsettled, with the more than nagging feeling lingering that in the Lizzie Borden case, justice has not been served.

Jana helped Khetala to herd the other kids of their gang over to the pump that spewed out water from the lowest mine workings, nagged them all to pull off their kameezes and wash.

If Rikki-tikki had only known, he was doing a much more dangerous thing than fighting Nag, for Karait is so small, and can turn so quickly, that unless Rikki bit him close to the back of the head, he would get the return-stroke in his eye or lip.

Driving back to the El Nido, some missing piece of legwork nagged at me through my exhaustion.

An added difficulty is that the ones supposed to be fetching Cho now are just as impressed by the local celebrity as the ones up in the Sawah, and nagging them does not seem to help.

Her pet tamrink, Tikal, could often be found scampering through the rigging, nagging the sailors with its constant mimic.

Something Pen had said when the Ulk Bog had mentioned him as being savior not only to her but also to him nagged at her.

When Leso Varen had died, it was as if a nagging ache in the base of his skull had ceased.

Away with dreams, and up to pull the shivering Kafirs from their snug lair beneath the waggon, and to give the good nags, which must gallop vilderbeeste all to-day, a double handful of mealies before you start.